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The Meta Keyword Tag Still Matters to Yahoo
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009At Fathom SEO, we’ve always optimized the meta keyword tag. While most search engines – including Google and Bing – have ignored the tag for years, the meta keyword tag has always carried some value because Yahoo! never abandoned it.
Earlier this month, Yahoo! announced that it too had stopped using the meta keyword [...]
Microsoft Seeing Purple?
Friday, February 1st, 2008The news is out that Microsoft seeks to purchase Yahoo! The search engine marketing world is atwitter with the news. Way too soon to weigh in on whom the big winners and losers would be if this transaction actually occurs.
However, it seems that one of the problems Yahoo! has experienced over the last couple of [...]
22 Billion User Generated Video Views in 2007!
Friday, January 25th, 2008eMarketer has a good report entitled ‘Who’s Watching User-Generated Video?‘.
So, good question. Who is watching videos? First, let’s talk about how many videos YOU are watching. 22 BILLION in 2007!
User-generated videos (UGVs) tallied 22 billion views in 2007, up 70% over 2006, according to Accustream iMedia Research’s “UGV 2005 – 2008: Mania Meets Mainstream” [...]
“Not So Fast MSN,†Says Yahoo!
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007I recently posted “How Good Will It Be?” about MSN doing some major updates to their Live Search functionality. This week Jason Lee at WebProNews wrote an article, Yahoo Makes The Assist, Web 2.0-ifies Results, discussing how Yahoo is now doing the same thing MSN is doing. Yahoo is now offering bring in a new [...]
Has Yahoo Given The User Too Much Power?
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Search Engine Land is in the midst of Local Search Week. I came across an interesting post Yahoo Local Now Features “User Denigrated Content” by Mike Blumenthal. He goes on to explain how Yahoo is giving a little too much power to the user.
The new Yahoo Local is making a strong attempt at encouraging user [...]
